The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-17
FLORIDA,


| Work on the artesian well at DeLand is
| progressing rapidly.
The arms for the DeLand military com
| pany came last week.
| There were 1927 visitors to Fort Marion
| during the month of July.
Fine peas and other vegetables are grow
| ing in the fields around DeLand.
| The seats for the new Presbyterian
| church at DeLand have arrived.
The ST. Augustine Battery is contem-
| plating a visit to Gcala in the fall
| The orange trees around DeLand are put
ting on fine growth and have good color.
The faculty of DeLands academy and col
| lege will be composed of nine members next
year.
1t is probable that the Magnolia Hotel, at
ST. Augustine, will be lighted by electricity
next winter.
Lieut.. Gaillard and party having COM
pleted the survey of st. Augustine harbor,
are now at work at Mantanzas inlet.
The taxes and licenses collected at St.
Augustine, by Tax Collector David L. Dun
ham, for. the year 1886 amounted to
$12,595 80.
William jackson, of Daytona, owner of
the yacht Coquette, wants to race her
against the Minnehaha, of New Smyrna,
for 500 a side.
The Town Council of Brooksville, at its
last meeting purchased sufficient land a
short ways from town and employed B. r.
Burwell to lay out a cemetery.
Hon. G. F. Fl. Bieley, Volusia's Represent
alive in the State Legislature, is devoting
his spare time to the cultivation of fruits
He has three acres planted with fig trees.
There are | ,S61 registered voters in Vo-
lusia county, and in the township surround
s.,e. NJ ILL., Al
townships north Of that city there are only
40.
st. Augustine has just been visited by the
man who eats glass He takes a huge bite
out of beer glass, masticates it into pow
der, and apparently swallows it. IL he
does not, the trick has not been detected.
Work will be commenced this week on De
Lands battle-ground. A lot near the centre
of the city win be graded and soddea with
Bermuda grass. Lamps and a band stand
will be put up, and a handsome fence built.
1t is said that W. G. Warden will erect
200 cottages at st. Augustine for the use of
persons OF small means, at very low rents.
| Something of the kind is badly needed
| There are no vacant houses, and rents are
| trightful.
John B. Stetsou, the wealthy hat manu-
facturer of Philadelphia, who owns much
valuable property at DcLand, is expected in
DeLand in few days. 1t is rumored that
the well known John Wannemaker will &C
company him.
Services will be held in the new Presby-
terrain church at DeLand, for the first time,
| next Sunday. This church is an architect
ural gen. and no town Of our size in the
| South can boast of better one The seats
alone cost 800.
| The roof is being put on the Lake Helen
| church. NJ. l.. Granville, who is secretary
of the Church Building Fund Society," Is
anxiously waiting to hear from subscribers,
AS the work cannot go much farther with
| out more funds.
Petitions were being very extensively
signed last week requesting the County
Commissioners to order an election to de
eide whether or not intoxicating liquors
shall be sold in fernando county for the
next two years.
Tuesday night some scoundrel threw a
| stone through Paul Rehnburg's show win
| dow, at St Augustine, with sufficient force
to smash an alarm clock inside, and alb
| stracted about SIS worth of goods, all he
could reach through the hole made.
John Gerken. of New York city, is max
| ing arrangements TO erect another brick
| block in DeLand. The dimentions of the
block will be 100xl00 feet, and two stories
high. Mr.. Gerken is already the fortunate
possessor of five large brick store buildings
at that place.
Some excitement was created at DeIIand
last Saturday by Deputy Sheriff Stevenson,
who shot negro who was attempting to
escape from the clutches of the law The
wounds are not serious, and the negro will
recover long before his sixty days term in
the county Jail expires
William Markle is erecting a two-story
addition TO public school No. at st. Au-
| gustine, AZ the accommodation is INSULT
| cient. The addition is of wood, vcneered
| with brick. Whenever the school board
has sufficient funds on band the entire build
ing will be finished in the same manner.
The press of the Florida AgricuIturist is
now at work on the fine illustrated pamphlet
of DeLand, which will be out some time
next month. IL is claimed by the publishers
that this will be one Of the handsomest
pamphlets ever printed in the State De
Land people believe IN liberal use of print
er's ink.
No election under the local option law
will be held in st. johns county, and the
sale of liquor will be decided, as heretofore,
! 10y a majority of the registered voters
| Petitions are now in circulation and are be-
ing numerously signed. There appears to
be but little doubt OF the reissuing OF
| licenses.
&. Nj. Drake, of Lake Helen, is about TO
ship some fifty boxes Of fine lemons from
| DIR. s. 7. Kingstons grove These lemons
are of the LaVilla Franc variety and very
uniform, running about 800 TO the box. Dr.
Kingston expect to realize good price on
them in Oswego N. Y, AS lemons are very
high at present.
Capt. William Moody has received inteli-
| gence TO the effect that thrty-fve new rifles,
| OF the latest pattern have been shipped from
| the United States Arsenal at Springfield,
| Mass Tor the use of the ~, AuEustine bat